[Iefac.list] CFP Ravi Symposium

[Vittal Prabhu]

Dear Colleagues,

Happy new Year! Please see the CFP announcement below for a Symposium in Honor of Dr. "Ravi" Ravindran.

Apologies for cross posting.

Sincerely,

--vp



International Symposium in Honour of Professor A. Ravindran: 12-13, March 2015, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

Professor A. Ravindran

Dr.A.Ravindran is a recognised teacher, researcher and author of Operations Research at Penn State University in USA. Formerly, he was a faculty member in the School of Industrial Engineering at Purdue University for 13 years (1969-82) and at the University of Oklahoma for 15 years (1982-97). At Oklahoma, he served as the Director of the school of Industrial Engineering for 8 years and as the Associate Provost of the university for 7 years with responsibility for budget, personnel and space for the academic area. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering with honors from India. His graduate degrees are from the University of California, Berkeley, where he received an M.S. and a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research. On attainment of age 70 this year, he is planning to go onto a semi retirement mode.

There are 28  Ph.D. students of  Dr. Ravindran who have graduated over the past 40 years. They have come together with the Operational Research Society of India Bangalore Chapter (ORSI-BC), Department of Management Studies, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore (DoMS-IISc) and the Indian Institute of Materials Management Bangalore Chapter (IIMM-BC) is organising an International Symposium in his Honour during March 12-13, 2015 at Sathish Dawan Auditorium, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560012.

The aim of the international symposium is to create a platform and facilitate knowledge sharing on the applications of OR in multiple criteria decision-making, financial engineering, healthcare delivery systems and supply chain management problems. The international symposium will feature demonstration of real world applications of OR presented by academics and practitioners.

Topics

The symposium invites research papers in the following five areas:

Multi Criteria Decision Making

Supply Chain Engineering and Management

Healthcare delivery systems

Financial Engineering

Best Practices in Teaching Decision SciencesSubmission Guidelines

Abstracts must include a clear indication of the purpose of research, source of data, methodology, major results, implications, and key references.

Format

Length     : 1000 words excluding title/cover page & references

Title Page: Title, author(s), affiliation(s), contact details

Font         : Times New Roman, 12 point

Spacing    : 1.5

Margins   : 2.5 cm. or 1 inch

Important dates

31st Jan 2015     :  Last Date for Abstract Submission

7th Feb 2015        :  Notification of Acceptance of the Abstract

25th  Feb 2015        :  Camera- ready Copy of Full-paper Submission

Registration Details

Pl. go to

 http://www.ravisymposium.org<http://www.ravisymposium.org/>


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Dr.Vittal Prabhu, Professor
Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering
Penn State University, 348 Leonhard Building University Park, PA 16802
Phone:(814) 863-3212, Fax:(814) 863-4745 Email:prabhu at engr.psu.edu<mailto:Email%3Aprabhu at engr.psu.edu>
URL: http://www.personal.psu.edu/vxp7/

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